Jellyfish

JELLYFISH

PACIFIC OCEAN JELLYFISH

JELLYFISH
There are about 2,000 species of jellyfish,

Are found in every ocean and a few inhabit freshwater.
Have a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles.
Their bodies are made up of 95% water.
If they end up on a sunny beach, they will evaporate in a few hours and mostly disappear.
In order to move, the bell pulsates.
The tentacles are used to catch prey.
Many are brightly coloured and very beautiful.
The tentacles have tiny stinging cells to stun or paralyse their prey.
They have no brain, no blood, no bones, no head, no heart and no nervous system.
Eat plankton, fish, fish eggs, shrimp, crabs and sometime other jellyfish.
The Box Jellyfish (Sea Wasp) kills more people than any other marine creature.
Main predators are the sea turtle and humans - they are eaten in China and also used in Chinese medicine.
All jellyfish sting - even dead ones.
Some are as big as man whilst others are as small as a pinhead.
Live for about 1 year.
The Turritopsis Nutricula Immortal jellyfish is the only species known to live forever!
A large gathering of jellyfish can number 100,000 individuals.
The Giant Arctic Jellyfish tentacles can reach 120 feet.
A species of jellyfish - Turritopsis Nutricula - is believed to 'biologically' live forever. They are found in the Mediterranean Sea

and the waters of Japan.

90% of all jellyfish are smaller than a human thumbnail.
Jellyfish born on the Columbia Space Shuttle, suffered from vertigo when they returned to Earth.

COMB JELLYFISH

PURPLE STRIPED JELLYFISH

PACIFIC COAST JELLYFISH